Comment 37415

By CityJoe (anonymous) | Posted January 26, 2010 at 03:28:04

The last thing I read on the subject of The Woodward St. sewage & water treatment plant was. "It will cost too much to fix it." It won't be fixed any time soon. (This was not long after it was announced that it would be fixed & updated.)

IMHO, since it serves a large area of Downtown, industrial areas, & part of Stoney Creek, "Hamilton cannot afford NOT to fix it."

I wonder what 3 feet of sewage in basements does to property values & the actual physical structure of buildings, esp. older ones? Nothing good. Both business & property owners will see a drastic increase in insurance costs, if they can get insurance at all after a flood or 2 or more.

This a bit off topic, but just sayin'. If Hamilton can't get basic infrastructure updated, then what exactly is the future of Downtown? If they keep on firing their 'experts' as they did recently, who's gonna believe what City Hall has to say?

If we want Downtown 'neat, livable, & pretty' we had better be thinking about things from the under ground up. Like water, sewage, & gas lines as well as hydro, phone/computer lines. What's the point of doing large renos, if the buildings are damaged during or after the fact?

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